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V BOOT 0R SHOE- No. 351,889 Patented Nov.2, 18186.

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OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SAMUEL PULSIFER CARRICK,

Boo'r OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,889, dated November 2, 1886.

Application filed March 24, 1886. Serial No. 196,322. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

' scribed in the following specification and repmy invention, the nature of which is definedv resented in the accompanying drawings, of which I Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2aside elevation, of 2. Congress boot provided with in the claim hereinaftefpresented. Fig. 3 is a top view or pattern of the vamp, showing the manner of cutting it in order to form the instep and front portion of the leg. Fig. 4 is a top view of one of the two supplemental pieces used in forming the instep portion of the vamp.

My invention relates to the vamp and front portion of the leg of the boot, or more especially to the construction of the instep portion thereof, the vamp and front part of the leg extending above the instep being composed of one main and two supplementary pieces.-

In the drawings, A represents the main portion of the vamp, and B B the supplementary portions, the object of my invention being to save the usual crimping of the leather in order to form the instep, such requiring a stretching of the leather in a manner to reduce it in thickness andweaken it, whereas by my improvement the instep portion of the vamp is not crimped or stretched, but retains its normal thickness.- The pieceA, having a suitable size and a perimeter essentially as represented in Fig. 3, I'slit on two curved lines,

a b 0, extending from the foot of the instep to the flanks of the vamp, in manner as shown in said figure, and from the top of the instep I slit the leather on two curved lines, b d, running ,to the lines a b c, in manner as represented in said Fig. 3. Next the leather is to be moved apart on these lines, and the supplementary pieces or gores B and B are to be applied and stitched or fastened to the openings at or about their edges, and so as to cover such openings and form the vamp with the front-leg portion and the instep, to which the quarters and the back-leg portion and elastic gores and the sole are to be applied, as in the usual manner of making a Congress boot.

My improvement enables me to save stock, comparatively speaking, and besides improves the shoe or boot aesthetically and usefully. In Figs. 1 and 2 the elastic gores of the boot are shown at D and D, the quarters at E E, and the back of the leg at F. The pullingloops are shown at G and H. p

I claim In a boot, the vamp and front portion of the leg as composed of a piece, A, of leather or other suitable sheet material, slitted on the two curved lines a b c and on the two others, I) d, essentially as represented, and moved apart on such lines, and of the two supplemental gores or pieces B and B, fitted to and covering the openings and stitched or secured to the piece A, all being. substantially asrepresented.

JACOB JONATHEN SNYDER. lVitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, R. B. TORREY. 

